“What we’re trying to do with the newsletter is make sure that people’s voices from the inside are included in the conversations about prisons and policing, so writing on these issues is so crucial.

We also want to support people finding ways to love each other and find solidarity through writing.

Sometimes the newsletter makes me think about that Rihanna song, “We found love in a hopeless place.” We get a lot of love letters, and that feels so important!

It’s a beautiful model of possibility. For people to see love poems written to them in their real name–not their government name, their real name–this is an act of seeing and believing that you are who you say you are.”

~ Excerpt of “The Mr. Adrian Lowe — interviewed by Miley” in Issue 15  (2015)